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Pre-colonial Elitism: A Study in Traditional Model of Governance in Akokoland

This paper examines the nature of traditional administration in pre-colonial Akokoland.Contrary to the view that traditional Yoruba society and other African peoples carried out their activities without planning because they were non-literate; there is sufficient evidence that pre-colonial Akokoland had dynamic patterns and result oriented models of administration.Prior to European colonialism, Akoko society was structurally arranged and positively administered for the benefit of the people of the region.The method of data analysis employed in the study is the historical approach of simple, de…